Incarcerated firefighters offer aid battling L.A. blazes, find career
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Sobering advice from two experts on how to prevent similiar fires
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2024 was brutal for Los Angeles restaurant closures
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Yes, Biden is governing as a progressive. Are you surprised?
President Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abruptly…
‘Moral imperative’: WHO presses China to share COVID origins data | Coronavirus pandemic News
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on China to share information on how COVID-19 emerged five years ago. The coronavirus killed millions of people, locked…
Have some down time? Check out the revamped L.A. Times games
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Tortoises are bouncing back thanks to Marine base conservation effort
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Disneyland OKs state’s largest wage theft settlement with workers
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He refused the COVID vaccine. He sued. He exiled himself from baseball
Would he do it all over again?That was the one question I wanted to ask Benny Gallo. He wanted to talk baseball.Baseball is not what…
Stunned Brit stumbles across 'weird' Covid theme park in Vietnam
A British woman has discovered a 'weird' Covid-19 theme park whilst travelling in Vietnam — including a bizarre timeline clock and imprisoned pathogen sculptures Source…
U.S. TikTok ban is nearing after another court defeat
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Trump’s first term brought a vaccine. His second could bring retreat
President Trump once celebrated the COVID-19 vaccines released at the end of his first term as “one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” echoing the…
Biden’s relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews
WASHINGTON — It’s not often that a president gets everything he asks for, but that’s what happened.President Biden wanted $1.9 trillion to help the country climb…
Yoga in a pill? Research might bring about prescription calmness
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Have you got flu, RSV, bronchiolitis, Covid or just a cold? Symptoms of all the nasty bugs rife right now
FEELINGS sniffly?It's that time of year again when everyone appears to be riddled with hacking coughs and sore throats. 4What winter bug has got you…
Trump picks COVID lockdown critic to lead National Institutes of Health
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health,…
Sexual assault allegations surface against Trump’s defense pick
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Animo Robinson wins second straight City 8-man football title
A new dynasty could be in the making in Los Angeles.Animo Robinson won its second straight City Section 8-man football crown in a light drizzle…
Plan to shutter Aliso Canyon gas facility isn’t moving fast enough
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Kevin de León, of the L.A. racist tape leak, is headed toward defeat
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